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Great Quotations

You... must look forward to death with confidence, and fix your minds on this one belief, which iscertain: that nothing can harm a good person either in life or after death, and her fortunes are not a matter of indifference to the gods.

--PLATO, APOLOGY

If your head cannot contain you - lose it!

--RUMI

Any pleasure is a remedy for sorrow (not necessarily the best remedy, but it does work).

--AQUINAS, SUMMA THEOLOGICA

Human beings all too often deceive themselves about freedom. And just as freedom is considered one of the most sublime feelings, the corresponding disillusion is likewise one of the most sublime.

--KAFKA, "REPORT TO AN ACADEMY"

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

--WILLIAM BLAKE, THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

The true college will ever have one goal,--not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.